Collection: Adult Non Fiction - History & Military

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides comes an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration - the fateful final journey of Captain James Cook. On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook began his third voyage in HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years later, in Hawa...

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: ROYALTY. This special Royal Souvenir celebrates the family life of William & Catherine, Britain's most famous couple. From their childhoods to meeting as students, their engagement and fairy-tale wedding, to the births of Prince George and their second child, this guide...

Salem, King James VI, Malleus Maleficarum. The world of witch hunts and witch trials sounds antiquated, relics of an unenlightened and brutal age. However, 'witch hunt' is heard often in the present-day media, and the misogyny it is rooted in is all too familiar today. A woman was prosecuted unde...

Not since the last American troops left Vietnam have we faced such a sudden vacuum in our foreign policy - not only of authority, but also of explanations of what happened, and what the future holds. In The Withdrawal, Noam Chomsky joins noted scholar Vijay Prashad to get at the roots of this unp...

At the Australian war crimes trials that followed World War II, one prosecution witness stood out: Warrant Officer Bill Sticpewich. During his three years in the infamous Sandakan POW camp, Sticpewich had seen hundreds of fellow prisoners die of starvation, sickness and overwork. Others were shot...

Drawing on a range of sources, from welfare and medical files to private diaries, letters and drawings, Stargardt evokes the individual voices of children under Nazi rule. In re-creating their wartime experiences, he has produced a challenging new historical interpretation of the Second World War.

At the outbreak of World War I, 129 women were registered as medical practitioners in Australia, and many of them were eager to contribute their skills and expertise to the war effort. For the military establishment, however, the notion of women doctors serving on the battlefield was unthinkable....

A compelling and thoroughly researched account of the CWA of NSW - its beginnings, its remarkable achievements and the indomitable women who have driven each one of its many successes. In 1922 a group of determined women from both the city and the country joined forces to change the lives of Aust...

Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg were strikingly attractive, courageous, ambitious women who fought convention to make their names in the male-dominated field of flight - both were pioneering test pilots and both were awarded the Iron Cross for service to the Third Reich. But they could...

The untold story of women at work during the First World War, providing a striking and informative insight into the development of the female workforce during the social and economic upheaval of the war years.